I'm the only Mauritanian filmmaker so it wouldn't make sense to make a film in France. I could shoot outside of my own country if the story was something that called for it. Africa really has to be the reason for me to make a new film.

The role of the artist is to be the witness of life, timbuktu.

Every religion has had people going out and killing in the name of it. But that's not what religion is.

Music is human vibration. It makes humans vibrate and takes them someplace else.

Islam never tells people to go out and kill other people.

I'm the only Mauritanian filmmaker so it wouldn't make sense to make a film in France. I could shoot outside of my own country if the story was something that called for it. Africa really has to be the reason for me to make a new film.

Music is one of the most beautiful things in the world. It's universal.